Many of you follow me on Facebook and so have seen the drama of life unfold over the last month or so. But I realized that I have put nothing about it on LiveJournal, so lots of you won't have any idea. For now, let's just say that it has been death, horrific death, more death, and illness. Even Jodi Picoult couldn't get away with writing this crap.

I will try to provide the litany tomorrow. For right now I am focusing on only one aspect of it. And that is that our 5-year-old daughter god daughter, the daughter of our best friends, Kat and Eric Meyer, has been diagnosed with a very aggressive brain cancer, anaplastic astrocytoma. While the tumor was operable, and the doctors did an amazing job to remove as much of it as they did, you can't just cut a few extra centimeters out around the tumor for good measure--that's our "thinky" parts, and for Becca was lodged between "motor skills and vision." Which means she is currently undergoing aggressive radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

With all of this, her survival chances are still 50/50, a toss of the coin.